Queer B-Cademy: B-ing is B-lieving

After the success of last year’s Queer B-Cademy, get ready for a new semester and seductive new syllabus. Its title, »B-ing Is B-lieving,« hints at the great programmatic question of queer authenticity and the belief in queer people’s dignity. The three-day semester is sprinkled with workshops, games, concerts, performances, talk shows and club nights run by people from the local Hamburg scene, accompanied by select international guests.

THURSDAY, 07.02.2019

19:00 / English+German / k4
GAMECHANGERS – TUCKÉ ROYALE, DANCING SVEN UVM. (+FRI +SAT)

20:00 / English+German / kmh
QUEER TALK – CARLTON MORGAN UND DANNY BANANY (+FRI+SAT)

22:00 / kmh
CONCERT: BLACK CRACKER
Having lived a life between military bases, art school and music, BLACK CRACKER sure knows how to navigate and mix sounds, texts, videos and installations. Debuting as MC, producer and solo artist ten years back, he managed to collaborate with some of the greatest avant-garde artists such as CocoRosie or Blixa Bargeld. In recent years, he joined Tucké Royale (also part of the Queer B-Cademy program) and Hans Unstern in the performance band project, Boiband. At Queer B-cademy he will be playing solo, blending dark clubby sounds with spoken word poetry.

23:00 / kmh
DJ SET: TUTKU
TUTKU is back and kicking off Queer B-Cademy’s party nights. After a brief attempt at studying psychology, she knew music was the key. Hamburg’s clubs know her, radio ByteFM know her too – her mixtapes of Hip Hop, Jazz, RnB, Arabesk and Baile Funk are top shelf. Get ready for some red-hot dance floor action.

FREITAG, 08.02.2019

17:00-22:00 / Registration required!
WORKSHOP YOU SEE... MIT JAMAL GERALD (+SAT)
JAMAL GERALD of Leeds, UK is all likes to stay in dialogue, in order to get rid his own remnants of dogmatism on the one hand, and to persuade others to question theirs. The socially aware and skillfully sensitive young author and performer likes to talk about identities, life experiences and to celebrate individuality. In his 1 on 1 performance, YOU SEE..., he wants to pick up the good old topic of privilege over a cup of tea. How bout that?

17:00 / p1 / English
WORKSHOP TRANS*/MATTER/REALITIES – ASSEMBLAGE UND LESEGRUPPE ZU KAREN BARARDS „TRANSMATERIALITÄTEN – XENO ENTITIES NETWORK MIT PEDRO MARUM UND ZANDER PORTER

In Karen Barad’s work TRANS*MATERIALITIES the theoretical physicist and feminist philosopher deconstructs naturalistic views of static identities and bodies by zooming into the atomic composition of the layers of the universe and speculating about the queer potentiality of subatomic particles. She discusses the energies flowing through a vast number of things: frogs, primordial soup, Frankenstein and trans wrath to name a few... This meeting is a community meeting with PEDRO MARUM and ZANDER PORTER of XENOENTITIESNETWORK welcoming everyone to discuss Barad’s texts and ideas. Find Barad’s text here.

19:00 / k4 / English + German
GAMECHANGERS – TUCKÉ ROYALE, DANCING SVEN UVM. (+THU +SAT)

20:00 / Westfoyer / Portuguese + English
ATTACK TRRRAH TRANS OPERA – MAVI VELOSO WITH DYNNO DADA AND TINA ESCARLATINA (+SAT)
Last time we saw MAVI VELOSO at Queer B-Cademy, she humbly titled her performance "Experiment #1" and impressed us even more with her physical and vocal performance. The Amsterdam based performer is back, but her aria turned into a tercett – with Dynno Dada and Tina Escarlatina she’s putting on ATTACK TRRRAH TRANS OPERA, a very personal research piece about body and voice transitions and migration.

21:30 / kmh / English + German
QUEER TALK – CARLTON MORGAN AND DANNY BANANY (+THU +SAT)

ab 23:00 / kmh
PARTY: AFRO PRIDE

SAMSTAG, 09.02.2019

17:00-22:00 / Registration required!
WORKSHOP YOU SEE... MIT JAMAL GERALD (08. + 09.02.)

14:00 - 18:00 / Registration required!
WORKSHOP SEXPERIENCE WITH YOUSEF ISKANDAR (09.02.)
Last year Spanish authorities denied YOUSEF ISKANDAR the permission to travel, so we missed out on this gem stone of a workshop. (NO BORDERS!) But this year, the journey is taking place and not stopping inside the workshop space. Yousef is going to take you to the depths of the spiritual powers of your own sexuality. Why are we searching for it in all these Far Eastern rituals when all we need is within reach. Challenging obsolete moral codes the group is welcome to rediscover the connection between spirituality and sexuality in the nude. Please provide basic hygiene, avoid using heavy perfume, bring your own bed sheet and comfortable apparel.

19:00-20:00 / p1 /
ALPHABET OF FAME - NAMEDROPPING AGAINST FORGETTING - NURAY DEMIR
NURAY DEMIR is a radically trans-disciplinary and research oriented artist, passionate about feminist and post-colonial theory debates and terminology. Her critical focus on social exclusions and complex hierarchies prompts her to create artistic irritations, take counter-positions and thus producing spaces of empowerment and social justice. In Alphabet of Fame she summons the spirits of feminist past and present by a ritual of name-dropping.

19:00 / k4 / English + German
GAMECHANGERS – TUCKÉ ROYALE, DANCING SVEN ETC. (+THU +FRI)
What was our favorite subject in school? Right – the lunch break! Why because that’s when the real shit was taught to us. Queer B-Cademy makes room for the queer knowledge that fell through the cracks of the curriculum and flips the script. Are you up for a round of Cluedo with Dancing Sven? Or rather Make’n’Break? Our GAMECHANGERS gaming alley is putting a queer twist on common games and welcomes back Dr.Tucké Royale with his game of memory. Join our lunch break! Bullies not allowed!

20:00 / Westfoyer / Portuguese + English
ATTACK TRRRAH TRANS OPERA – MAVI VELOSO WITH DYNNO DADA AND TINA ESCARLATINA (+FRI)

21:30 / English + German / kmh
QUEER TALK – CARLTON MORGAN AND DANNY BANANY (+THU +FRI)
After a fresh online launch of their YouTube channel talk show QUEER TALK, CARLTON MORGAN and DANNY BANANY are going live to discuss B-cademic knowledge, and queer life experience. With their guests MAYA PHOENIX, JESSE DEMEL, VIVIENNE LOVECRAFT and LEYLA YENIRCE, they will explore the narratives of credibility, realness and validity of queer realities. Sounds so serious, right? Well, ... it would be if Carlton and Danny were just talking.

23:00 / kmh
KILLA
Having lived a life on a strict diet of beats and swag, KILLA made sure she could provide the right amount of groovy 90s techno and house to Berlin’s best clubs, after she moved there in 2010. Vinyl only, of course! DJ in residence of the capital’s most talked about queer feminist and sex-positive party LECKEN, Killa also curates and organizes events - among others at Grießmühle and legendary gay club SchwuZ.

SONNTAG, 10.02.2019

13:00 / Westfoyer
B-RUNCH

• Concept: Daniel Chelminiak alias Danny Banany
  
• room concept: Daniel Kalinke, Sebastian Faßnacht
• QUEER TALK: Fernsehballet with: Charlotte Meyerhoff, Serena Stark, Francesco Minicione Scharnbeck

Supported within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses Alliance supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media. And funded by Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and Rudolf Augstein Stiftung.

A project within the framework of ACT (Art, Climate, Transition) funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union and the Alliance of the Internationale Produktionshäuser by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.